CoECS Conversation: Energy Resources/Management

NYIT College of Engineering and Computing Sciences welcomes Greg Sachs, PE, chief operations officer of EmPower Solar, who will present on “The State of Distributed Energy Resource (DER) Interconnections & Processes in the PSEG-Long Island Service Area.”

This presentation will detail the current state of DER on Long Island as well as the technical challenges and political/organizational obstacles. Given the current growth in solar roofs, home batteries, and electric vehicles, the local electric grid must be prepared to incorporate these options.

About Greg Sachs

Greg Sachs, PE, is chief operations officer of EmPower Solar, a 100-employee company based on Long Island. He is the elected chairman of the PSEG-LI Interconnection Working Group and core member of the New York State Interconnection Technical Working Group, both dedicated to advancing technical policy enabling the interconnection of distributed energy into the electricity grid.

Sachs was a founding member of the Long Island Solar & Storage Alliance. He graduated from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA), co-founded the USMMA Alternative Power Program, and taught electrical engineering as a tenure- track professor. Sachs attended the U.S. Navy Nuclear Power School and subsequently held several management and teaching positions as a nuclear engineer at Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory. He holds a master’s degree from the MIT/Sloan Systems Engineering & Management program. He also participated in a two-month simulated NASA mission as part its Human Exploration & Research Analog program.

R.S.V.P. to Robert N. Amundsen, Ph.D., at ramundse@nyit.edu no later than October 24 to receive the Zoom meeting link. Amundsen is director of the New York Tech M.S. in Energy Management program.